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scarcely |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Scarce \Scarce\, Scarcely \Scarce"ly\, adv 1. With difficulty; hardly; scantly; barely; but just With a scarce well-lighted flame. --Milton. The eldest scarcely five year was of age. --Chaucer. Slowly she sails, and scarcely stems the tides. --Dryden. He had scarcely finished, when the laborer arrived who had been sent for my ransom. --W. Irving. 2. Frugally; penuriously. [Obs.] --Chaucer. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: scarcely adv 1: by a small margin; "they could barely hear the speaker"; "we hardly knew them"; "just missed being hit"; "had scarcely rung the bell when the door flew open"; "would have scarce arrived before she would have found some excuse to leave"- W.B.Yeats [syn: {barely}, {hardly}, {just}, {scarce}] 2: almost not "he hardly ever goes fishing"; "he was hardly more than sixteen years old"; "they scarcely ever used the emergency generator" [syn: {hardly}]
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